From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8jV4-0007FE-OM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:08:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k73K4a43014892; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:04:36 GMT Received: from shadow.wildlava.net (shadow.wildlava.net [67.40.138.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73JwOQB007828 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:58:25 GMT Received: from [67.40.138.82] (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shadow.wildlava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C1C8F186 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:58:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <44D2555F.8000804@skyrush.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:58:23 -0600 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type References: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f47248a3-c35d-4031-bda7-2bb68b56f591 X-Archives-Hash: 443bded9dc7da7069ca147cccbeae3e6 No problem! Just reformat /dev/hda1. Doing this will not touch the other partitions. Of course, if you are booting off of /dev/hda1 now, this is problematic... See the man page for mkfs for more info. Something like: mkfs -t ext2 -m1 /dev/hda1 -Joe Michael Crute wrote: > I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I > anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for > gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and > would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the > disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine > right now. > > The partition structure looks like this: > hda1 -> NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) > hda2 -> Swap > hda3 -> Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) > > -Mike > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list